Category: Sexual Orientation

Idaho’s recent “Definition of Sex” law has garnered attention for its potential to guard future generations against ideologies that contradict biological facts, according to Rep. Julianne Young, the lawmaker who introduced the bill. This legislation cements the legal definition of biological sex, confirming that it always refers to male or female, based on biological attributes.

The Biden administration on Friday released its long-anticipated rewrite of Title IX, but left out any mention of transgender-identifying male athletes in women’s sports.

Scotland’s only gender clinic for minors is formally pausing the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone medications that are designed to facilitate gender transitions for children after a review commissioned by the English government questioned the efficacy of those practices.

The study categorized sports into three categories: “contact sports” such as boxing, sports “heavily reliant on physical capacities” such as track and field, and “precision sports” such as archery.

Among respondents, 58 percent said they favored biological sex categorization and viewed biological men competing in female competitions as unfair in all categories except for precision sports, research said.

Concordia University in Montreal is getting ready to host a one-day symposium focused on “menstrual equity” and “human rights” for “menstruators.”

However, a female scholar contends the event promotes the “erasure of women.”

Five female middle school athletes in West Virginia refused to throw the shot put against a male after a circuit court exempted the boy from a state law that prevents males from competing on female sports’ teams.

People aged 14 and older will now be able to change their first name and gender entry by making a declaration to the registry office. Minors will need the consent of their parents or guardian. Children under the age of 14 can also change their gender, but the parents would have to apply to the registry office.

The lawmakers penned a letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker that asks him to limit participation in women-only sports to biological women. They sent the letter to Baker about a week after a smaller college athletics association — the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) — unanimously voted to restrict most women’s sports to biological women and forbade biological males from participating in such competitions.

Those who challenge the view that a person can identify as an amputee despite being healthy must also challenge the assertion that one can simply identify as the opposite sex.

At the centre of the case is K.S., a 33-year-old who was born as a male, but now identifies as a “feminine dominant” non-binary. He uses a female name. The most appropriate surgery to support his gender identity, he feels, is a “penile-preserving vaginoplasty”, a procedure which is offered at the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery in Austin, Texas. It is not available in Canada.

A new NHS report concludes that youth gender treatments are ‘built on shaky foundations.’